FACETIAE.
Motto for a " Kiss." — Go it, my two lips. A country paper describing the effects of a late thunderstorm, says :—": — " Several cattle were killed, but fortunately, no lives lost." A person lately returned from Newfoundland, says that " the fog is so thick there that he used to drive a nail in it to hang his hat on." What iron monster grows upon the banks of the Thames, and is both fish and fowl ? The crane ; because the crane is a bird and a Iwister as well. A thrifty wife wonders why the men can't manage to do .something useful. Might they not as well amuse themselves in smoking hams as smoking cigars ? In the committee on the Factory Bill a witness from Dundee was asked, " When do your girls get married V He replied, . " Whenever they can get a husband." Quaker once hearing a person tell how much he felt for anothes, who was Buffering and needed his assistance, dryly asked him, "Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for him f '
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 8 December 1870, Page 7
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173FACETIAE. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 8 December 1870, Page 7
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